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Part of the Trolley Trail that opened last year, the century-old skew arch bridge is getting a facelift. The skew arch bridge on Fairmount Park’s Trolley Trail is in its first round of repairs.
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A 19th century bridge, built for a long-defunct West Fairmount Park trolley line, now a ...
Just in time for your daydreams about the weekend to start up, the folks over at Curbed Philly have created a handy 17-stop map to Fairmount Park’s greatest hidden gems. And we want to go to ...
Make sure to take their suggestions and visit the park while the temperatures are still warm (relatively speaking). Eater maps ... Fairmount Park trolley line that operated from the 1890s to the 1950s ...
Philadelphia is lucky to have an outdoor recreational space as sprawling and strategically developed as Fairmount Park, whose 6.4 square miles and 4,100 acres includes museums, trails, The Mann ...
With thousands of acres in East and West Fairmount Park and too many destinations ... The old train platform on the Trolley Trail “You have to trek about a mile in from the trailhead.
Refurbished Philly Trolley Trail leads to hidden gem bridge in West Fairmount Park Why was the bridge built? The Skew Arch Bridge was built for a trolley line that opened in 1897 and was operated ...